Reporting

Action on Armed Violence

Now

2025

RAF surveillance flights over Gaza

Action on Armed Violence and Declassified UK

Details

An AOAV flight-tracking study found at least 518 RAF surveillance flights near Gaza between December 2023 and March 2025.

Bureau of Investigative Journalism

2009–2012

2011–2012

Deaths in Custody

Editor · Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Amnesty International UK Media Award, Digital, 2012

Details

Showed that more people had died after being restrained in police custody than official figures suggested.

2010–2011

Europe's Missing Millions

Editor · Bureau of Investigative Journalism, for BBC Radio 4 File on Four and Al Jazeera English

Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe Award, 2011

Details

An investigation into fraud in EU funds, reported by Angus Stickler.

2010

Iraq War Logs

Editor · Bureau of Investigative Journalism

Amnesty International UK Media Award, Digital, 2011

Details

The Bureau's analysis of the leaked US military logs of the Iraq war.

ITN

2005–2009

2006–2009

More4 News

Executive producer, commissioning independent output · More4 / ITN

RTS nomination, News Programme of the Year 2007

Details

A daily news programme on More4.

2006

Coroners reform

Producer, with reporter Andrew Thomas · ITN

Bar Council award for best broadcast journalism

Details

A report on proposed changes that would have made coroners' investigations into deaths abroad discretionary rather than compulsory.

Channel 4 and BBC

2002–2005

2005

A Tale of Torture

Producer, with reporter Ross McWilliam · BBC Frontline Scotland

Shortlisted for an RTS award

Details

The first interview with Sandy Mitchell after his release from a Saudi prison, where he had been falsely imprisoned.

2005

Bad Medicine

Producer, with reporter Olenka Frenkiel · BBC Two, This World

Peabody Award

Details

An exposé of the worldwide trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

2005

Places That Don't Exist

Producer, with Simon Reeve · BBC Two

One World Media Award, popular feature

Details

A series on breakaway states and unrecognised nations, filmed in Somaliland, Somalia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Taiwan.

2004

Security Wars

Producer, with reporter Sam Poling · BBC Frontline Scotland

BAFTA Scotland; Prix Circom

Details

A film about organised criminal gangs in the construction security industry in Scotland.

2002

The Crucified Soldier

Researcher and producer · Channel 4, Secret History

Details

Grew out of his MPhil research into the First World War legend of a soldier crucified near Ypres in 1915, and identified him as Sergeant Harry Band of the Central Ontario Regiment.